TiVo : Is the TiVo charge now £3 per month on all TV packs?

[batchain]

Originally Posted by TheDon

How did we? Seeing as VM specifically told us it would be £199.95.

New customers paid £199.95.

[Lew]

Originally Posted by telegramsam

Clearly not enough people took up the original offer of the boxes. I did say on this forum a month or so back that virgin would have to reduce the cost if enough people didn`t sign up. It so often pays to sit back and wait,as I have done.

Or alternatively enough people did take up the original offer that they could drop the price sooner than they planned.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by TheDon

Yeah, I expect the prices to drop in time, I've been an early adopter long enough to know you always get hit in the wallet the most. But this is as soon as it's advertised to the general public and after telling us we were getting a great offer.
It's not even had a run at the price they stated it would be, it's immediately discounted to less than we paid. If it was dropped from the £199.95 to £149.95 like we paid I wouldn't have an issue, I'd just shrug and go "at least I got it early". But it halving in price immediately on it's actual launch? To the point where I've essentially paid £25 a month to have Tivo early? I'm sorry but that's not just a normal price drop, that's a complete **** take.

This guy really is talking sense, the excuse for being an early adopter just doesnt cut it. I'm sure a lot of us here are "early adopters", we paid £900 for Blueray players or £400+ for PS3, back in the day we paid £1000 for a CD player..

But never before has something dropped in price so fast,,,,actually the original xbox dropped in price. I think I paid £299 for my original big xbox1 then 6 weeks later it dropped to £99...But microsoft sent us all 2 games RRP£40 and extra pad RRP£39.99 and some xboxlive gold time.

[denphone]

Originally Posted by Lew

Or alternatively enough people did take up the original offer that they could drop the price sooner than they planned.

Exactly.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by Lew

Or alternatively enough people did take up the original offer that they could drop the price sooner than they planned.

But they may alienate existing customers. Market research company's say its costs 5 times the price to attract a news customer as it does to keep an existing one.

Virgin should remember this. You don't milk existing customers to cover the cost of attracting new ones. You do what Sky does,spend on keeping what you already have.

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

You do what Sky does,spend on keeping what you already have.

I'm sure new Sky customers get better deals then existing customers.

I paid £150 for my TiVo, which is now available for £99. Sure would like that £51 back, but like it or not, early adopters have - and are willing - to pay more to get their hands on tech ASAP.

Not sure if anyone expected VM to drop the price so soon, but I can see why they did it:

1TB TiVo at £99
vs
1TB Sky HD at £150

TiVo is by no means the finished article (Reminders, Red button, Dynamic EPG), but it still compares well against Sky HD, especially at that price.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

I'm sure new Sky customers get better deals then existing customers.

I paid £150 for my TiVo, which is now available for £99. Sure would like that £51 back, but like it or not, early adopters have - and are willing - to pay more to get their hands on tech ASAP.

Not sure if anyone expected VM to drop the price so soon, but I can see why they did it:

1TB TiVo at £99
vs
1TB Sky HD at £150

TiVo is by no means the finished article (Reminders, Red button, Dynamic EPG), but it still compares well against Sky HD, especially at that price.

You can now get a Sky 1Tb box which actually has a 1.5Tb HDD for £49. My first sky 1.5tb box did cost me £149 but our new one cost us £49.

Sky+HD 1TB
(with HD Pack)
Box cost £99 Free From £49 - call

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

You can now get a Sky 1Tb box which actually has a 1.5Tb HDD for £49. My first sky 1.5tb box did cost me £149 but our new one cost us £49.

Where's that on the Sky site? Or was that a special offer?

The £150 price I got from here:
http://www.sky.com/quickbuy/build

And 500Gb is reserved for Anytime VOD, and can't be used for recordings.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

Where's that on the Sky site?

The £150 price I got from here:
http://www.sky.com/quickbuy/build

Here.

http://www.sky.com/shop/customer-shop/box-upgrade/

[denphone]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

I'm sure new Sky customers get better deals then existing customers.

I paid £150 for my TiVo, which is now available for £99. Sure would like that £51 back, but like it or not, early adopters have - and are willing - to pay more to get their hands on tech ASAP.

Not sure if anyone expected VM to drop the price so soon, but I can see why they did it:

1TB TiVo at £99
vs
1TB Sky HD at £150

TiVo is by no means the finished article (Reminders, Red button, Dynamic EPG), but it still compares well against Sky HD, especially at that price.

Well spoken and the fact remains people did not have to fork out early for it but of those who did l do not think they will have many regrets about it.

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

Here.

http://www.sky.com/shop/customer-shop/box-upgrade/

Looks like that's for existing customers only. My prices were for new customers.

Try getting 20mb broadband, two Sky+HD boxes, Movies & Sport in HD, unlimited calls and line rental for £110.

Can't be done.

Sky cannot compete.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by HDFootyMan

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TiVo is by no means the finished article (Reminders, Red button, Dynamic EPG), but it still compares well against Sky HD, especially at that price.

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No Tivo on the planet has a dynamic EPG not even the American PREMIUM version. That I'm afraid is urban myth.

[HDFootyMan]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

No Tivo on the planet has a dynamic EPG not even the American PREMIUM version. That I'm afraid is urban myth.

I never said it had one, that's why I said its not the finished article.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by Jameseh

Try getting 20mb broadband, two Sky+HD boxes, Movies & Sport in HD, unlimited calls and line rental for £110.

Can't be done.

Sky cannot compete.

Sky 20Mb with phoneline =£19.
Skyworld hd plus multiroom currently £82

£19+£82=101. But remember the multiroom HD charge in gone is September so it will all cost £91.